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Weddings with Family & Friends

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

One blessing that comes with my job is being able to help dear friends and family out on the most special day of their life…their wedding!!! A couple months ago I got to make the wedding cake for my brother-in-law and further sister-in-law. They are such an awesome pair together and I am so happy to have them both as part of my family! Their wedding day was filled with lots of fun, family, and friends. The color scheme for their wedding was red, black, and white and had a spanish flair to it, so I decided to do sugar jewels and deep red sugar roses. I loved the stacking of the cake and overall the day was a blast! Here are some photos from the day!

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How cute are they! Thanks so to Nathan Board for the wonderful photos!

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My fabulous mother-in-law who is beyond amazing and helps me out all the time!

How cute is the flower girl Madison!

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Here is Louisa and I enjoying the moment!

And lastly watching my little baby getting cut…a little painful, but the result is delicious

The second wedding that I had the privilege of being a part of was for a dear friend of my family…Nicole is actually the sister of my husband’s best friend and their family has been extremely close with my in-laws family for forever, so it was so nice to be able to be a part of their special day! I loved all of the personal touches that Nicole and Paul had for their wedding! We got to make ranunculus flowers and use lace sugar accents and piped tiny white dots for accents. Here are some photos of the fabulous day!

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I love the backdrop they created! It really helped pull in the whole look of the wedding!

Here is Louisa and I with the gorgeous bride and groom! Louisa was a bridesmaid…how lovely does she look!

Thanks so much for stopping by and talking a look!

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Vintage Inspired Wedding Cake!!!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Well, I am finally feeling like life is getting back to some sort of pattern and I am really enjoying it! Today I am actually at my in-laws beach house in Newport Beach and then off to lunch and shopping with my girlfriend Kate! But before I left for my day of fun I thought I would post these gorgeous photos from a recent wedding that I had the pleasure of doing. Courtney Toney of Joyful Weddings & Events completely blew me away with the look of this wedding. She worked hand in hand with the bride and groom who were very involved with the planning of their wedding day since their reception was actually in their backyard. I loved my wedding day too, but if I were able to go back in time I think I wish this was the style of my wedding…intimate, detailed inspired, and a touch of vintage…love, love, love it! The bride and groom were so much fun to work with and really let me try out some new ideas with the design of their cake! Lastly, I have to say that Amy Squires did an amazing job with the photography! I was able to work with able on my first real wedding back in the day and it was so much fun seeing her work her magic again with this wedding!

For the dessert station Courtney found the most adorable vintage cart! For the cake design the bride wanted to incorporate sugar lace, pearls, and lots of vintage details! We accented the cake with a fabulous sugar magnolia flower too! To add to the details the bride wanted to do some mini desserts as well, so we had cake lollipops, mini red velvet cupcakes, and mini cheesecakes with raspberries.

Here are a couple more details shots of the gorgeous day!

I also took a couple detail shots of the desserts and cake so I could share them with you! They are not as good as Amy’s, but hopefully they will do!

Thanks for checking out the photos…I would love to hear from you!

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Posted in Cakes, Cupcakes, Desserts, Wedding Ideas, sugar flowers | 36 Comments »

Sarah & Cezanne’s Wedding

Friday, July 24th, 2009

I have been waiting for a while to post this uber-fun wedding! I knew when I first met the couple that this was going to be very creative and beautiful wedding! They had such fabulous ideas and weren’t scared of putting in the extra time to pull off a one-of-a-kind dessert display. Not only were they super creative, but their wedding planner and my personal friend, Jesi Haack of Jesi Haack Weddings, is one of those people who is SO talented and loves pulling off gorgeous, yet unique events! Thanks so much to my other friend, Adrianne Bonafede, who is a great photographer and came along with me to help capture a lot of these yummy images. Their wedding photographer, Juan Posada, of Posada Photo shot some lovely images too and was kind enough to share them with me!

On a side note I wanted to say “THANK YOU” to all my blog readers because this past week I passed the 1,000,000 view mark!!! I could’ve never imagined having that many views on my site…when my husband first suggested I start writing a blog I thought he was crazy…I remember saying to him “Who would want to read what I write and look at my silly little photos!” BUT I guess I was mistaken, and I have to say thanks for proving me wrong! This has been so much fun and I absolutely love getting to connect with people all over the world through this silly little blog!

Here is a little behind the scenes info about the wedding via Jesi Haack’s blog…

“This clean, modern, design inspired wedding showcased Sarah and Cezanne’s love for ultra-hip designer, Jonathan Adler and The Parker, a chic resort in Palm Springs. From the custom designed monogram, courtesy of the groom, to the fruity, Creamsicle signature cocktails, it was impossible for their guests not to feel drenched in chic exuberance. Each reception table claimed the name of one of the couples’ favorite mid century designers and the fortune cookie favors illustrated the story of their engagement. Everywhere they looked the guests were refreshed with an eyeful of buttercream yellow, tangerine orange and lime green detail. The tantalizingly tempting dessert display had every taste bud in the room screaming for a mini-cake lollipop, or a mouthful of cotton candy. Paired with the newly renovated, modern decor of The Belamar Hotel in Manhattan Beach, it was a dynamic display that could not be matched. Maybe not even by The Parker itself ”

Sarah & Cezanne both wanted their guests to enjoy an array of tasty mini desserts as well as having a custom wedding cake that incorporated the pattern they created which was seen throughout their wedding. We used edible frosting sheets to print the pattern on the cake as well as on the sugar cookies and then created handmade sugar orchids to surround the top tier of the cake. I have to say that my sister outdid herself with these flowers…they are gorgeous!

Here are some more details shots of the wedding!

For the mini desserts we decided to pull the yellow and orange color scheme throughout the look by adding cute candy to the cupcakes and using liners that matched too!

We then dipped the chocolate cake pops and pretzels in matching chocolate as well.

A couple more detail shots of the wedding…

And last, but not least the glorious little mini key lime pies, passion fruit, coconut, macadamia nut tarts, and monogram cookies…aren’t they cute!

And what’s a dessert bar without a little cotton candy!

Thanks so much Sarah & Cezanne for letting me be apart of your special day!

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Posted in Cakes, Cupcakes, Desserts, Wedding Ideas, sugar flowers | 30 Comments »

Bride & Bloom Magazine!!!

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Well, as you can see change has come to the blog! Thanks to my sweet hubby for redesigning my blog to look more like my new website! I can’t believe I have been blogging almost 1 1/2 years now…times flies when you are having fun!

I hope everyone had a fabulous 4th of July weekend! I loved finally having a little free time with the family and tried very hard to keep my mind off the millions of things I need to do for work. Who knew that ordering bakery equipment and supplies could be so daunting!?! I think I have over analyzed every aspect of cupcake liners, packaging design, ovens, and baking racks. I am happy to announce that I placed my HUGE order for all the baking equipment and tried not to look at the price quote when I got it…I simply closed my eyes and signed the check! I have to give a shout out to my WONDERFUL parents who have practically funded my whole dream and decided to jump on board as partners in the business with my husband and I! I absolutely LOVE working with my family and so happy that they will all be surrounding me as I take this crazy journey into sugar, spice, and “hopefully” everything nice!

One thing that has made this journey so sweet has been the amazing vendors that I have met along the way and now I am even lucky enough to call them friends! Carissa from JL Designs has probably helped me more than anyone in the wedding industry and has truly been a blessing in my life! She is the most talented floral and event designer and seriously blows me away each time I see her work! I can still remember the first time she asked me to tag along to one of her photo shoots and I couldn’t believe it! It was so last minute, but I didn’t care…my sister and I busted out 6 mini cakes and a two tiered wedding cake in one night! When I asked who the photographers would be and Carissa said Carlie & Gabriel from Gabriel Ryan Photographers I was jumping for joy! I am in love with their work and was so excited for them to shoot my sweets! They are not only talented, but some of the most fun, genuine, and sweet people I know! We were all also so lucky to work with Allison from Invitation Innovations, Desiree from Wildflower Linens, and Megan from Classic Party Rentals! Carissa’s fabulous publicist Leila Khalil, from Be Inspired PR, landed us in the new issue of Bride & Bloom Magazine and I can’t thank her enough! Here is one of the two shoots we did that day!

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I was so happy with how the magazine spread turned out! Here are a couple of the close up detail shots!

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And here is a photo of Carlie, Carissa, and I…they of course decided they had to taste the mini cakes once the shoot was done!

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I also wanted to share a couple more photos with you from the dessert studio! A lot has happened this past week, but most importantly my front bakery case got put it!!! Thanks so much to Ben Brigham for his amazing custom wood work! I basically told him what I liked and let him do his thing and was so happy with the results! I do have to say the photos are great, but it even looks better in person, so once I’m open I hope you stop by!

Thanks for stopping by the blog!

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Lots of Goodies

Monday, March 16th, 2009

LIfe as usual is quite busy! I have so many random photos of different orders that I have recently done, so I thought I would just do a post and shove them all in here! They were all a lot of fun to do and I hope you enjoy the photos! Definitely give me your feedback if you have a chance…I love to hear your thoughts and opinions!

First off is a recent wedding that I did. They venue was the Marvimon in Los Angeles…definitely my favorite venue yet! If you are getting married in the Southern California area you have to check them out! The bride and groom were such a pleasure to work with and I absolutely loved their whole wedding look! The bride looked gorgeous (I am so bummed I didn’t get a photo of here in her adorable dress)! The cake was buttermillk cake with lemon cream filling and fresh raspberries. The cake was covered in vanilla buttercream and decorated with fresh flowers, black satin ribbon, and tiny white dots.

As you can see from the photo, the middle tier is twice the size of a normal tier. It is basically two separate cakes stacked on top of each other and dowelled in the middle. Then I just frosted it as one cake tier. It is cut the same way you would cut any other cake…you just cut the first cake and then take off the cardboard base and continue cutting the next cake.

For their favors they decided to go with cake ball lollipops. They choose buttermilk cake dipped in white chocolate and red velvet cake dipped in dark chocolate. We then bagged and tied all 115 bags and put their monogram on the front. I think these are such a great wedding favor and are quite tasty too!

These next treats were made for some of our corporate clients. We printed their logo on edible frosting sheets and then placed them on our delicious sugar cookies and also made matching cupcakes to go with them. For the cupcakes we placed the edible frosting sheet on a disc of fondant to give it stability.

This next cupcake was done for a friend of my sister’s. She threw her friend a graduation party and wanted some cupcakes for the celebration. I will be selling these fabulous liner’s along with many others on my website shortly! If you want to order some right away just leave me a comment and I can email you all the information.

This next cupcake is from a small birthday order that I did. I used a chocolate transfer sheet to get the fun design on top and then just colored the frosting and added some sugar sparkle to finish the look off.

This cake was made for one of my little brother’s friends. He had a rock climbing birthday party and his mom wanted to surprise him with a fun cake to go along with it! Here is a quick photo demo of how I did it.

And lastly, this final cake my sister and I made for an auction at my old high school. The cake was red velvet with cream cheese frosting and then I covered the cakes in white fondant. My sister made the gorgeous sugar flower and decorated the cake with black fondant lace.